The Brussels Post, 1891-11-27, Page 1Volume 19. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1891
rJ HE MAN FOE. THE
MINISTRY,
(uv maw, n. veru,)
This is a subject fuil of interest, the
most profaned, and far reaching ae
eternity. The minister of the Lord
Jeans Christ ie on =Winder, hence
Paul says "Now then we are ambassadors
for Christ," He is seat from the court
of heaven with the terms of life and con-
ditions of salvation. What an honor I
How fearful the responsibilities I What
everlasting destinies hang on the faith,
ful performance of duty 1 The anbas•
Bader for Christ is the most honored man
of the race, and if so he should seek to
stand at the head of his species. Ile is
the messenger of God. Christ has sent
him. Hods sent with a menage of truth,
love, peace, hope. He is sent to the rebel
with berme of pardon, to the onteast that
he may be restored to the favor and
image of God, to the hungry that he may
be fed with bread from heaven, to those
who sit in the region and shadow of
death that they may behold the light of
the glorious gospel of the Son of God.
Let us stand aside and mark this mos -
emitter one from God with the message
of eternal truth. How much, very
much, depends on the tocsption or re-
jection of this message as to the life or
death, happiness or misery, weal or woe;
of the person so receiving or rejecting it.
And if eon how much depends an the
man delivering the message, presenting
the truth to the mind and heart? What
earnestness, point and power should
oharaeterize the man so sent I But he is
a shepherd. A. shepherd convoys the
idea of watchfulness, tenderueso, care.
Oh what deep sympathy and earnest soli-
oitnde is manifested as the shepherd
takes the lamband enfolds it in his acme I
How tender the touch, careful the hand
and watchful the eye ! The Master nee
said "Feed my lambs, feed my sheep."
There is more in these short statement's
than most people realize, even shepherds,
hence the important questions : How to
feed then ? When to feed them ? And
with what they should be fed ? We shall
not stop hero to answer these questions
folly, but any in passing that they must
be fed at the right season with fond that
is convenient and adapted to their
spiritual needs and not as I heard a
minister a short time ago addressing a
number of Sabbath school scholars from
six to fourteen years of atm. He tallied
to them in the most earnest, eloquent
manner on Philosophy, Geology, Astro -
omy, Roman Catholicism, Confociaism,
Buddhism, Brahimmism and Maham-
medenism. I thought what do they
know about the sei313c08 and the isms,
end they Dare a great deal less. What
folly to address children in such a man-
ner. A true, thoughtful shepherd will
not fend the lambs of hie Hock or the
sheep of hie fold with such indigestablo
food. But now a word on the work to be
done. We do not say too much when
we affirm it ie the most solemn and im-
portant work that can engage the mind,
heart and tongue of any man. This
work brought the Lord Jesus from
heaven, hoe engaged the attention of the
greatest and most holy men of the roe
and dote much to people the upper
temple. The effects of this work will be
lasting as eternity. This brings us Noe
to face with the snbjeot in hand -"The
mat for the ministry." He should be a
good man, a very good man. All men
should be gond men ; ample provision
has been made for this end and no
reasonable excuse can he found for n
rnan not being good, and further, no
man can answer the purpose of God in
hie being who is not what be shouldbo—
good. But the man who bears the vessels
of the Lord, who Mande Letweel the
pooh mid the altar, who proclaims the
words of life and salvation should be a
good man. But there are two aspects of
this truth, or it may be viewed from a
two fold standpoint. Many pronounce It
man good 'when he is limiest, !find, a
good neighbor and a loyal citizen—what
some call a moral man --whet we call
outwardly moral. A good man must
po0sess all the above traits of ohmmeter,
and more, lie must have received the
forgiveness of all his past sine, the re-
newal of his nature by the Holy Spirit of
God, the divine enointer. He must be
filled with the Holy Ghost, be clothed
with the spirit of holiness and walk in the
sunlight of heaven. It was said of
Barnabae he wag a good man and full of
the Holy Ghost and of faith. No wonder
that the word was with power and that
many people were added unto the Lord.
Lot us here state once for all that we
have not a word to say against learning,
eloquence or any other qualification for
the sacred office. On the contrary there
cannot be too much sanctified learning,
consecrated eloquence, oloque ee that
moves the heart, warms the affections,,
stirs the couacienoo and guides bhe judg-
mou,. However we may have something
to Buy about Dome kinds of learning for
the pulpit. Nov a days when people in-
quire about a mal to become their min-
ister questions like these are asked :—is
he 0 drawing Bard ? Will he fill the
church ? Will he bring up the finances
and spay off the church debt ? Not, le he
a good man ? Is he an earnest, devoted
Christian ? Does God honor him in the
salvation of men ? On the other hand the
minister is 10okftig after the amount of
salary they. pay and 1101 80 muah what 18
God's will in 030 matter, can I glorify
His name and do good ? The great need
of the ohnrch and the world today
is good men in every department of God's
work, bub especially in the ministry,
Good 'nen, men folly given op to God,
consecrated to klfs service, baptized with
the Hely Ghost, flatting with holy zeal
and determined to congtter'the world for
Christ. Men who have confidence in
themselves, faith in the truth, in their
divine mission and in God who sett
them. Men who sae the world loot !u
till, who hear the Dry coming up
those who are mangled, bleeding, dying'
from the terrible effects of moral evil,
and are willing at any Dost to enatoh
than from the moult of a yawning hell.
Men oho belfove God's truth*, Who realize
ite power, whose lives are in harmony
With it and who preach it as the wisdom
and power of God. Men whose lives are
a living sacrifices, all on the altar, and
1011000 highest aminti011 is to glorify God
and hies their follow met, But he must
be a mite called of God. We are of time
who believe that the Lord is the snpeema
governor of the universe and that He bits
a place for every man whom Ho has
made, The wise man will Beek to find
his own proper phaco and bo fill that place
in the beet manner possible. If this bo
tree of every man, how much more of
the man who is to fill the pulpit as bhe
miniator of God, the messenger of salva-
tion. here the question may be asked:
Does the Almighty call then to the work
of the ministry, and if so, how duos he
pall them ? Christ said of the Maniples
"I have chosen you twelve,' and He sent
them to their work• Of Paul ib ie said,
"He is a chosen vessel unto Me to bear
My name among the Gentiles," Paul's
call was so plain, clear, (Rebind and inn -
portant that, be [mid, "Woe is onto me if
I preach not the gospel." livery mee
idiom God designs for 1hie holy calling
will have a call to this work and such
that cannot be misunderstood, Aword-
ing to our view of things there are three
ways by which the Lord calla men to
preach the gospel. By the direct agency
of the Spirit upon the heart. By the in.
dirout call of the church. By opening
before then an effectual door of useful
nese. New, if the heart be right with
God, the motive pure, the eye Bingle and
the man obedient to the divine call he is
not likely to be mistaken as to his mis-
sion. The prophet ,.aid, "But Hie wurd
was in mine heart as a burning fire shut
up in my bones, I was weary with for.
bearing and I could not stay." There
oould be nu mistaking the work to be
done and the call to do it. The same is
true of the ministry of to day and no
man should take on him this ministry
until be is satisfied that be is called there
unto, then woo unto him if he disregard
or disobey the call. Fie should be a man
of good natural abilities. By natural
abilities we understand the abilities that
man has by nature, or that are given
him by the God of nature. These are
given to some in a larger degree and to
others in a leas degree. A man to be a
successful minister and a soul winner
must possess it quick perception so as to
perceive the great truths of the Bible,
truths concerning God, His nature, at-
tributes, perfections, charooter,purposea;
of Christ Jesus and His great work of
redemption ; of the Holy Spirit and His
opexationa on the sole of men ; of man,
his fall and how he own be saved ; of
heaven, hall, time and eternity. The
minister should haven, clear understand-
ing, No man can present 1111111 in a
clear manner so as to carry conviction if
he does not see it clearly and understand
it fully himself. This is one pause why
truth so frequently lacks point and
power, The man who does not under -
eland God's truth, eepenially the great
truth of bnmau redemption, should keep
away from the pulpit. Then ho should
have a sound judgment, for poeseesing a
sound judgment be will be qualified to
judge as to the truth which is essential
for the end in view and how it should be
preseubsd that the end may be a000m-
pliebed. In no one is a sound judgment
so much to be desired me in the person
sent from God with a message of mercy
to fallen man. But further, he should
have the ability to study human mature
and read human character. A minister
may be well versed in the arts and
sciences), a philosopher and profound
theologian and yet fail in soul saving,
and one cause of failure is the want of a
knowledge of human nature and holy to
deal with it. In the work of saving man
the citadel of the soul must be captured
and to know how to accomplish this is of
the highest importance. It may be done
through the iutelleet, through the affec-
tions or by an appeal to hie sympathy,
manhood, judgment, but as it must be
done the how is of the most weighty con.
sideration. To acquire this knowledge
the ability to read human character to
essential. A friend of mine, a lady, could
read a man at sight and the thing moat
remarkable in it was she read correctly.
A man should read books and study
them hot a minister should lead men
constantly and study them in the most
thorough manner. He ehould be a man
of acquired abilities. No man has
abilities in such a high degree that no
improvements oan be made or others
acquired. Looking at this oubjeot as we
do there appears three distinct elements
of ability : All the attainments of the
higher life of 111e Christian ; the special
anointing of the Holy Spirit for the work
of the ministry and the advantages ate
c'ruing Iroln a superior or higher educa-
tion. It may not be out of plasm in
passing to notice each of these a little
more fully. It must be admitted by
every intelligent man that there are
degrees of attainment in the divine life,
that a large number of Christians live on
a very low plain. They live amidst
doubts and Beare, mist and destining and
not in the bright ennligbt of God's love.
The minister, nut solely for hie own per.
clonal enjoyment but that he might be an'
example to others and a power for good,
should walls on the highest plain of
Christian experience and there revel In
all the graces of the Eternal Spirit.
There the true light shineth, the glories
of God's grace appear ; there is to ha on.
joyed fellowship with the bather, with
the Son sand with the Holy Ghost. No
ono oan live in these regions and not be
better qualified for the work assigned
thin to dn.
(Continued next week.)
Der D. B. Fraser, of Stratford, has
been appointed an examiner fu msdioius
in oonuecti00 with the Trinity College
University, for tine ooming year,
The Stratford Herald says Ihirtytiree
medals for serving en the frontier ab the
time of the Fenian Raid in 1886 have
been received by people in that neighbor.
hood.
"Rev." Walter Nelson, the married
pastor of Port Burwell Baptist Church,
has eloped with Miss Teetzel, a St.
Thomas young woman who wail teaobmg
in a Malahide so1o0l, Nelsense biotory
is not known to the congregation over
wbiob he presided.
(alp Ilh:POift' F(M1 1591,
The report of the Bureau of £ndnstrioo
gives the Intel yield of erudite and re010
in Ontario, um followe for 18911—
Bushels.
21,872,488
10,711,568
16,141 90.4
75,009,542
1,134,0!30
18,320,459
18,288,659
2,608,142
1(111,600
24,055,880
11,779,448
9 811,010
,68,858,452
Tone.
2,392,708
fall wheat
Spring wheat
Batley
Gate
R,ye
Peas
Corn (in the oar)
Buckwheat
Beans
Potatoes
Mangel.wnreels
Carrots
Turnips
Hay and clover
Beans and hay are the ouly crops that
fall below the average yielcl per Here for
ten years. The large yields estimated in
August have been more than realized in
the results of threshers' returns, except
In the case of beans. The crop of wheat
is nearly half as much again as in 1800
and is placed at 32,589028 bushole, of
which about two-thirds is fall wheat.
Fail wheat bas an average yield. of 20
bushels per ore for ten years, while the
standard of spring varieties is now 15.8
bushels. Fall wheat this year exceeds
the annual average per acre by 6,7
bushels ; Spring wheat by 5,2 bushels ;
barley by 9.2 beetle's ; oats by 5.7
bushels, and peas by 2.6 bushels. The
oat orop will exceed the light one of last
year by over 22,000,000 buehele,while the
average per acro is the 11911081 recorded
in ten years. The Drop of corn is
estimated on the whole area grown, but
0e possibly one sixth is used. for green
fodder or the silo, the figures will be
higher than actually husked. The yield
is given in the ear end is 9 8 bushels
above the average. The root crop will be
enormous. Potatoes shoe an increase of
39 bushels per acre over last year. Rot
is reported in several localities and the
loss from the source is undeterminable
as its ravages are likely to continue after
pitting, Olf.uglss exceed the average by
57 bushels per acre; carrots by 37
bushels and turnips will surpass that of
last year by 21,812,889 bushels. The
area in pasture Land was 2,721,281 acres
of arable land and the assessor's report
187,832 acres devoted to orchard and gar-
den in township municipalities.
Washington Letter.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
\VAesINOTON, Nov. 13, 'al
While it cannot be said that the
Speakership contest has began here in
earnest, it is, nevertheless, an interest.
ing sign of the approttohing struggle that
four of the candidates aril now in Wash.
ington- -Metiers. Mills, Mc Milieu, Spring.
er and Bynum. Up to this time there
has not been a vary marked influx of
Congressmen, and the registry of the
House pootoffioe ie almost as blank now
as in midsummer. The situation is
such as to make every man feel that he
has a chariots of aucoese and those who
have not now such a following as to, in
itself, give great promise of victory count
a great dell upon the assumed feat that
the fighting has all yet to be done. It le
believed that comparatively few mem-
bers have absolutely pledged themselves
to any candidate, and that they are
awaiting developments after they get to
Washington bwo weeks before the meet.
ing of Congress, The result of the fall
elections was expected to have some in-
fluence over the canvass, but nothing has
developed to indicate any particular can-
didate who may expect to be benefitted
by that result. It is evident at this time
that the ohief consideration in the oleo.
tion of a Speaker will be the effect it will
have on the presidential contest in 1892.
It is believed that a majority of the
members will come to Washington with
the object in view of doing that which
will be most apt in their judgment to
promote the interests of the party in the
Presidential campaign, and that the of.
forts of the leaders will be directed to the
cultivation of this feeling. If this spirit
is as general as is believed there will be
apt to be a great deal of shifting ab.,ut
from one o,tndidate to another up to the
last moment, 0o sustaining the hopes of
all and keeping them in the fight until
the "caucus" of the motel lobby has
settled on one as the winner and the un -
pledged members make a rush to get on
the winning side.
The intimation before the United
Status Supreme Court on the port of
Solicitor General Miller, that an agree-
ment in the nature of a treaty between
Great Britain and the United States had
been reached, referring to arbitrators all
pointe of oentsutiol in the Behring Sea
controversy, was an incident probably
unprecedented in that the negotiation of
an rnteruational treaty was thus peculiar-
ly and for the first time divulged. The
disolosure of an important state secret
in the midrib of a legal argument before
the Supreme Court was namely to be
looked for. Of course the State Depart•
meat could not be expected to slake pub-
lic any information concerning the mat-
ter one way or the other especially as to
bhe details of a convention which hart yet
to be ratified by the Senate and to bo
oonaldored in the secrecy of an oxeoubive
0000iou. But the evidcnos of the At-
torney General and oolfuitor general
should be eonolueive as to the rant that
such an agreement has been been entered
in t0:
Italy is likely to resume her diplomatic
relations with the United Stelae within
the next fete months, It in nob improb-
able when this event wore that Bacon
From will be again plumed in (=trot of
the legation, Your oorroopondent has
been informed Ont high diplomatic author-
ity Putt the Italian government is very
hopefnl that the American Congress will
voe a small indemnity to the families 0)
its slain eaibjects. Should Oongre00,
however, decline to snake the approprha,
tion it is quite probable that Italy wilt
to-oetablioh the entente oordialo, al-
though with manifestly a bad grace.
Baron Fava'e course while iu tbie country
00x0, for the time being, Irritating to the
11,1110,11 premier, Baron Five was a
staunch and sturdy friend of the United
Stamm, 110 urged a moderato policy up•
on hie government from the first and It
was not until Rodin) had twice com-
manded him to demand his passports
and leave tht country that be r•luotantly
did so. There is no doubt that Premier
ltndini lies since realized that the baron's
corn 10119 the proper one.
The oloctione of last week had the effoot
of darting afresh the booms of the several
Presidential possibilities on both sides of
the political fence. The friends of the
vedette candidates seem to prooeod on
the theory that the more noise they can
make the more boom their favorites will
have. While the discussion now fn pro-
gress may not do any particular harm, it
might be well to remember that there is
a long and important campaign ahead,
and if it is inaugurated too soon there is
same danger that the people may be over-
dosed with speculation of this nature.
The approaching Congress may be
known in history as the New Congress with
a capital N. There is newness enough in
it to entitle it to this description by way
of preeminence over other new Congree.
ses.
TOKEN lx 0,v
s STR.t,NGI I(,
The shoddy goods peddler is a person-
age who ought to be well enough known
by this time to be avoided by people who
want good value for their purchases.
Still, the disposition of people to jump at
a feir•seeining "bargain," no matter by
whom presented, is as great as ever.
Proof of this is afforded by a story which
,o oorrespondeut tells below. It is notice.
able that the shoddy peddler in this in-
stance got pretty well Into the "book
townships,' for the complaint cones from
a station on the Northern Paoifio Juno -
tion Road, pretty well up towards Lake
Nipiseing :
011001 DOINGS IN 000 TO0NSIIIP,
'Last spring a commercial gentleman
from Toronto, by name Barney McCoy,
went through our township away up in
Meslcoka—he was selling for a firm nam-
ed Crieparkle ,2 Go. Mr. 111oOoywas one
of the pleasantest geutlemen you ever
met ; he could tell a good story, nurse the
babies tell the women how to preserve
fruit. Then, too, having a large family
of his own, be knew all about measles,
colic and fevers ; ho could tell us how to
cure 1101000 and cattle ; he wag an author-
ity an ringbone, spavins, or foot and
mouth disease. In feet there was no.
thing in heaven, or on earth, or in 111e
waters under the earth, that he didn't
Icnoty all about. He knew too mach for
me. He sold me a bed spread for a dol-
lar which was worth two and a half—
he thein sold tee thirty five dollars worth
of cloth that a tailor refused to make up.
The tailor told me afterwards that it wee
a heap of blamed shoddy and was not
worth making up. Mr. McCoy then
drove over to Bowser's and told Mrs.
Bowser a touching story about a ship-
wreck on the banks of Newfoundland,
and declared that he weaselling the goods
that were wrecked. He caught the Bow -
sere with the same bait as be caught me,
viz., a quilt worth two and a -half for a
dollar. Then he took their note for forty
dollars for goods not worth a third the
money. To make o long story short, he
caught nearly everybody in thetownehip,
both on the town line and in the 'back
fifties.' Ele got away with two thousand
dollars worth of notes, and all we have to
show for them is a good qnilt each, a few
yards of factory cotton, and lots of York-
shire shoddy cloth that is not worth
making rip.
"The arrangement was that if we did
not approve of the goods, after a week or
so we could return them to the express
Milo and get nor notes bock. But there
watt nobody at the express office that
would listen to our story. Another thing
that Mr. McCoy promieed us was that
if we could not meet the notes when they
same due in October, the firm would re-
new them until next spring. It is now
dieoovored—I myself have seen the no•
tens of the numerous sheriffs' sales—
that over twenty pour settlers are sued on
these notes. Some of them have had
their crops and cattle seized by the sher-
iff to pay the notes they 'signed for the
so.called great Toronto house, represent.
ed by the everlasting smart Barney Mo.
Coy I Remember that Barney is made a
defendant to the dozens of suits he was
served in Toronto, so that we are all "in
the soup" together. I merely write these
few lines to warn the people against such
frauds as Irish shoddy peddlers. Some
of the poor people around here are put to
sad straits by this abominable swindle.
Mnooy told the people that the local store-
keepers were swindling us and making
fortunes out efthehard•working farmers.
Now we know wlt,p has robbed us. The
lnoal dealers are good onongb for the peo-
ple of this township, and if ever Barney
McCoy comes round here kissing the
babies and giving us advice about thing's
in general, he can depend en getting a
warm reception."
Mark Killoran,. known to local fame 00
"Italy Mark" wa. arrested in North
Easthopo last week by the Stratford
polioo under remarkably eingnler oiretlm-
stan0es• "Holy Mark' has long been
known in Stratford and vicinity, and in.
deed in most ports of Ontario, 08 an
smoothie character who made a living by
selling prayer hooks and various articles
aevoO aced with religions worship, He
could neither reed nor write, and twee it
is that the peculiarity 011000 in ao11n00•
tion with his arreelefOr the charge against
him is forgery, The complainant is Mr.
Grant, of Simo00, Wino alleges that Mark
signori, as a wi0neee—or at lost made his
marls—a will made by his (Ch'ant's)
father-in•lav, but placed his mark at the
name of another man, thus virtually
forging the other man's name, When
arrested he incidently informed the
policeman that his nose started to bleed
last year and that his memory had not
been very good yhtuo, He was taken to
Simcoe wher0 the trial 00111 be held,
The amount involved in the will is about
$18,000.
i;ae0:u.li:4rt Novvr-t.
Brantford t.. to have an electrical street
I'ailwlt0 system.
The Montreal Herald, founded A13 years
nga, has gorse into liquidation.
The St. (flair tunnel 19 0o be opened for
paseenger business on December 7th.
Patrick Walsh, an Ottawa backman,fell
off hie cab and received fatal injuries.
Goerge Frank received severe iejuriee
in a sewer oave•in at Brantford Saturday.
The Montreal agent of immigration re.
ports 20,799 arrivals during the past year.
Farmers in the vicinity of Appin are
making arrangements to ship their own
wheat.
Parry Sound passed a byelaw Friday
providing for the eouetruction of n water-
works system.
A four-year-old child in Lanark County
was stamped on by a cow and received
fatal injuries.
George Wallace, a young man living
three miles from Campbellford, commit-
ter suicide Saturday.
The Hamilton boy, George Elliott, who
pushed a piece of lath up his nostril, died
Saturday of lockjaw.
Lieu. col. Boyd, of Port Elgin, is suf.
Tering from issuer of the stomach, His
Daae is hopeless, it is believed.
Charlotte county, N. B., voted last
week on Soott Act repeal, and the repeal
petition was emphatically defeated.
While moving a frame building near
Dresden last week, J. W. Greece found a
mastodon tooth weighing four pounds.
It is gold that work on the branch of
111e G. T. Ry. from Park Head to Owen
Sound will be continued after Christ.
ens,
Dr. L. E. Horning was installed in the
new chair of Teutonic languages and old
English literature at Victoria College,
Cobourg.
The petition against the return of John
Charlton and the cross -petition against
Dr. Sinclair in North Norfolk have been
dropped.
The members of the York County
Council last week dined Warden Pugsley
and presented him with a handsome gold -
headed cane.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Toronto have appointed a comm
rnittee to look after the attainment of the
ballot fur women.
Premier Mercier bee sworn out 0rimin.
al inform tion for libel against J. 1'.
Whelan and the newspapers which pub-
lished hie chargee
Parkhill is to have a Board of Trade,
at whittle business men of McGillivray
and East and West Williams will be eli-
gible for membership.
During the past season 105,806 head
of cattle, 31,766 sheep, 79,309 packages of
butter and 1,372,088 packages of cheese
were shipped from Montreal.
Galt won the first match for the junior
football championship (Association) of
Ontario on Saturday, defeating the
Canadian Rovers 2 goals to 0.
It is understood that Elon. 0. F.
Fraser, M. P. P. will not be in his place
at the next session of the Legislature.
He will spend a year on the Paoifio Coast.
The election of Mr. Tranx in East
Brune was declared void on Saturday, on
the grocnd that an agent hired a team
on election day to carry voters to the
poll.
A new binder, invented by E. Ingleton,
of Brantford, and intended to bind all
kinds of grain with straw taken from the
sheaf while being cut, is about to be intro-
duced.
At Lonsdale, Hastings County, a ver-
dict of wilful murder has been returned
against James McGinnivs in connection
with the death of B. Ford en Thanks.
giving Day.
The four•year•old son of Wm. Dooley,
a Gatineau farmer, was bitten a week
ago by ea rabid dog and died in horrible
convulsions two days since. The dog
has been killed.
Michael Rennie, of Port Arthur, a
strong man of 30 years of age, Inst an
arm Tuesday at Fort William through
his foot becoming caught in a rope that
instantly hoisted him to a pulley block
in the 0. P. R. elevator with such a force
and in a manner that took his arm off
above the elbow.
While George Pepper's horseitosebery,
the famous jumper, was trying to break
hie record of 7 feet 3i inches at the fat
cloak show in Chicago last Saturday
night be fell, receiving injuries from
which he died on Sunday night. The
Imree was valued at $25,000, and was the
emperor of jumpers.
A number of the friends and neighbors
of J, H. Reilly, who was waylaid and
robbed of $500 on the Appin eideroed a
few weeks ago, surprised him at the reei•
denoe of Joseph Sefton, his fathor•in.laiv,
in Metcalfe, the other evening, and pre.
sontod him with a purse of $170.25, to-
gether with a kindly worded address.
Arthur Stewart Houston, the 12 year-
old sou of Canon Houston, of Niagara
Falls, Ont., has been awarded the medal
of the Royal Humane Society of England
far pluokily rescuing a ohild and its
clothe' from the Niagara river rapids
last summer. The medal is to be pre•
seated to the brave boy at a public meet-
ing at the Falls.
Recently toms boyo went to a pit on
John Armstrong's farm, 2nd con, of
West Garafraxa, and get fire to the sbrmv
covering. Of comae the whole covering
was burned and a lot of turnips ruined.
There were about fourteen loads in the
pit, whloln Mr. Armstrong intended keep.
ing till the spring, laving stored the
remainder in hie bane, and the boys
thought that if they could but destroy
his pit they would be paying a fine trick
on him.
N. Folds and bred Tre,nwitl,, et Brant,
ford, were engaged in saving wood in the
barn with a molar saw, wllioh was run
by inn large windmill on the barn. Tree•
with; was standing le the doorway of the
barn when a heavy gust drove the door
Ault and three him on the sate, He fell
on hie right side, and led it not been for
the guard -boards on the ow he would
have boon est in two. After slashing his
side for eoveral (oho the motion of the
Saw throw him off and his leg ennui in
Contact with the 0000 and was badly out,
but he will recover.
Number 20,
Sir Marine Tupper has notified the.
lbjinieter of Marine that four Cate,diana
have ben awarded Repel ILlnutue
Society medals.
Daring tau, past two menthe there have
been twenty two fiene in Sarni's, and
most of them aro believed to have been of
incendiary origin.
A eommisoion to form colonies of
SWAM} crofters in Canada h140 been at,.
pointed in Blighted. Sir Oharles Tup•
per is a member.
While attending thankegiving service
at the East Williams church, Spriogbenk,
lolr. McDonald had a valuab'e horse
strangled by a rope halter.
Pelee Island produced this year $20,•
000 worth of grapes and 90,000 bn,hels
of wheat. There were over 100,0(10 gal•
Ions of wine made on the island.
What might have proved a very serious
accident happened to Mrs, George Gage
at ltidgetown on Thursday afternoon.
Her little child was playing with a load-
ed revolver, when it was aeoidently dis•
charged, the ballot striking against the
sewing machine, glanced off and pene-
trated the forehead of Mrs. Gage, causing
a severe but not dangerous wound.
During the peat three months Mohler
Bros., proprietors of the Forest Fruit
and Evaporating Works, have purchaser)
over 12,000 bushels of apples from the
farmers of that locality. During the
time they have been operating they have
paid out about $50 per week for wages
and $20 per week for fuel. They are
still buying the apples, and intend to
operate there on a larger scale next year.
People We Know.
J, Morrie has returned to Renfrew,
Mrs. Wm. Vanetone has gone to Galt.
A. G. Dickson, of Toronto, was in town
this week.
T. Hilliard, of Waterloo, was in town
this weaken a business taip.
Mrs. Brown, of Wroxeter, was visiting
her daughter, Mrs. T. Gibson, last weak.
Arch McDougall, of Glenelg township,
was visiting hie sister, Mrs. Donald
Scott.
George Hingston, of Joliet, Illinois,
was in town this week on a visit to hie
mother.
J. A. Hingston and J. 13. Campbell, of
Seaforth, spent Sunday vvitln friends in
town.
Dr. W. Shaw, of AnnArbpr, Michigan,
is visiting,, his brother Principal Shaw,
of Brussels.
Mr. Brownlee, of Glencoe, eon-in•Isw
to Pnetmaeter Farrow, is very ill with
typhoid fever.
Wm. Norton has gone to Renfrew on a
prospeating tour. He left Brussels on
Wednesday noon train.
There is very little change in the con•
dition of Dr. Holmes. Tho fever is gone
but other troubles have taken its place.
Sadlnel Smale sr. is on the sick list,
this week with congestion of the lungs.
He is improving, we ole pleased to state.
J. A. Creighton and Harold are away
on a trip to Montreal. 81r. Creighton is
having a few weeks of well deserved holi-
days.
Rev, S. Sellery, B. D., of Wiugham,
made a short visit to Brussels last Fri-
day evening to call on Dr. Hohnes who
has been so seriously ill.
T. Buokborongh and wife, of Waterloo,
were visiting Rev. G. F. Salton and wife
this week. They were former parishion•
ars of the reverened gentleman.
Fred. Montgomery, of Deloraine, Man-
itoba, has come to Brussels where he
will make his home for a time. He is a
brother of Mrs. W. F. Venetnne'e.
Last Friday Mrs. S. F. Willson, of
Clinton, died and was buried on Sunday
afternoon. The deceased was a sister to
Mrs. Silas Jackson and Arthur McGuire,
of this place.
Miss Taylor, now teaching in the 2n6
department of Brussels Public school,
has been engaged as Primary teacher in
Clinton school for 1892. Miss Taylor
exuells in instructing the juveniles, and
did splendid work while in charge of that
division in our school.
T. L. Hingston, of Cypress River, Man.,
is here. He was summoned owing to
the illness of his mother, who has since
died. tier. H. went to the west in 1880
and is very favorably impressed with
that country after an experience of over
eleven years. Mrs. Hingston was a Miss
Cardiff. Mr. Hingston will not return
for a month or so. Chas. Hingston, of
Markham, is also more.
You 000 FIND 00T De TIIIM alt T000 1—
Five dollars' worth for fifty °sits is an
unusual offer, yet it is a bona fide one.
While travelling iu Germany, Edmund
E. Sheppard, editor of Toronto Saturday
Night, saw in the prhnnipal art stores a
magnificent oleograpin 20 x 28 inches in
size, printed in twenty-one different
colors and tones of oil—what is really
factory -made oil painting of the highest
plass, not a chrome. lifter obtaining the
address of the art association which issu-
ed it, he visited their manufactory in
Berlin and made arraugeinents for a
Canadian edition to accompany the
Christmas Number of Toronto Saturday
Night. The subjects of the beautiful pie-
ture ie Fatima, the daughter of Mehemet.
Only one thousand copies had been print.
ed and theee wore sold at twenty (narks
($5.00) each, The firm had paid the
artist, one of the most distinguished
portrait painters in Europe, five thousand
marks for the privilege of reproducing
this pi00nre, and the sale in Germany
bad been limited to one thousand copies,
yet the picture which will be presented
in Canada is identical with it, printed on
the finest paper in twenty-one differently
colored oils, embossed and varnished
ready for framing and nodding neither
glass in front nor wood batik of the
picture, 0e it is almost identical with a
pambiugmounted ostcanvas. The p10ltire
represents en oriental beauty remarkably
lifelike, cud is unequalled by anything
that leas ever bean p100000ed by any news-
paper in the world. When you set this
9100008 hacgiug in a news store together
with the pioterfal 009910ments given by
the English illustrated papers, you will
at once admit that evou thsgreat London
publiaabions are not in competition with
Oar own Canadian Saturday Night,